One gentleman just posted his resume today. Job skills almost an exact match, in the geographical area, hmmm, promising. So I sent an introductory email and attached the application. The response?

"Who are you and why are you sending this to me?" No, not promising at all.

My first thought is that he is sharing an email address with someone else who has no idea he's giving it out or maybe even applying for jobs -- spouse, roommate, soon-to-be-former-employer? Definitely a warning flag but I think more like an orange-ish rather than a full red. If it were me, I'd give him a second chance to apply, but on the alert for more warning signs.

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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." — Douglas Adams

One gentleman just posted his resume today. Job skills almost an exact match, in the geographical area, hmmm, promising. So I sent an introductory email and attached the application. The response?

"Who are you and why are you sending this to me?" No, not promising at all.

My first thought is that he is sharing an email address with someone else who has no idea he's giving it out or maybe even applying for jobs -- spouse, roommate, soon-to-be-former-employer? Definitely a warning flag but I think more like an orange-ish rather than a full red. If it were me, I'd give him a second chance to apply, but on the alert for more warning signs.

Who in this days and ages, even more someone saying they work in IT or with computers, shares an email adress?

I should have known better, just by the email address. It is MadHatter@iownmyowndomain. My first thought was, 'I didn't he make a new email address?' My fault, I take responsibility for reaching out to mad people. Well, a very happy unbirthday to me.

One gentleman just posted his resume today. Job skills almost an exact match, in the geographical area, hmmm, promising. So I sent an introductory email and attached the application. The response?

"Who are you and why are you sending this to me?" No, not promising at all.

My first thought is that he is sharing an email address with someone else who has no idea he's giving it out or maybe even applying for jobs -- spouse, roommate, soon-to-be-former-employer? Definitely a warning flag but I think more like an orange-ish rather than a full red. If it were me, I'd give him a second chance to apply, but on the alert for more warning signs.

Who in this days and ages, even more someone saying they work in IT or with computers, shares an email adress?

For some reason I know a few, mostly couples, that share -- I guess I'll call it -- a household email address. It's not the most professional when applying for a job, but I don't think it's the kiss of death. The response was crazy though.

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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." — Douglas Adams

Who in this days and ages, even more someone saying they work in IT or with computers, shares an email adress?

For some reason I know a few, mostly couples, that share -- I guess I'll call it -- a household email address. It's not the most professional when applying for a job, but I don't think it's the kiss of death. The response was crazy though.

lightbulb moment!Now that you mention couples I guess it sometimes make sense, not in a "that's the only address I have and I share it", but in a Jonesfamilly@provider that gets redirected to John-Jones@provider and to Sarah-Jones@provider. That way Granma Jones doesn't even have to guess who she should mail and the school can reach both parents at the same time...

My parents share an email address too, but that's mostly because my mom refuses to get her own. I suspect she's a bit of a technophobe. Either that or she just doesn't want to deal with emails from her crazy side of the family. She also refuses to get her own cell phone but woe to me if I don't answer mine whenever she calls.

I hate having multiple email accounts myself. I did that back in the early days of email and found it to be tedious to remember to check them all. Now, as much as I hate spam, I just use one personal address for everything and get militant about unsubscribing to unwanted email and using filters. Every year I go on a hunt and destroy for online/customer accounts I've created but haven't used. Then again, my address isn't named something crazy or unprofessional.

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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." — Douglas Adams

If a couple or family want something like jonesfamily@example.com or alice-and-bob-wedding@example.com, that seems plausible. But when I was trying to decide who to vote for in the recent local primary, I was not impressed by the person whose only contact information in the voter information pamphlet was something like maryandjoe@well-known-isp. I wasn't expecting pat-for-council@example.com, but a non-shared address would have seemed more as though the candidate was taking the whole thing seriously. (A friend of mine has been posting about her local mayoral race, which is something of a mare's nest, and one of the things she talked about was email addresses and other aspects of candidate contact information.)

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Any advice that requires the use of a time machine may safely be ignored.

I have a family email account for school notices, PTA communication, shopping and traveling. I also have my own professional email, and several personal email accounts. After I learned to stay far away from one email provider, I no longer get much spam at all.

Oh .... wow.... I just had to read a winner of a CV. Introducing "The Precision Processor".

There was a paragraph of "Self Description" in the CV, which included some absolute gems:

Our candidate starts off in the third person with "His got a very experiential way of learning". It then continues in the next sentence with "He believes to have" the ability to whittle complex situations down into "comprehensible component part".

The award winning sentence (wherein he gets so excited about how awesome he is that he switches from third to first person halfway through): "In short he has mastered the art and science of precision and that's what makes me a Precision Processor".

He babbles on a bit more about how wonderful he is and how he sees life as a series of complex equations and finally ends off his masterpiece by comparing himself to Pythagoras.

And you may ask yourself how qualified Mr Pythagoras is and how many years experience he has? A mediocre high school pass, a technical certificate or two from a minor technical institute I don't recognise and 1 year's experience.

Once I'd stopped laughing, I binned it with a loud resounding "Noooooooo". My boss did offer to interview him just for kicks to see how bad he is in person, but we decided we had better things to do with our time than cater to delusional special snowflakes who mistake blinding arrogance for confidence.

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It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian Tiger - from a distance, preferably separated by bars . -- Pearls Before Swine (16-May-2009)

Oh .... wow.... I just had to read a winner of a CV. Introducing "The Precision Processor".

There was a paragraph of "Self Description" in the CV, which included some absolute gems:

Our candidate starts off in the third person with "His got a very experiential way of learning". It then continues in the next sentence with "He believes to have" the ability to whittle complex situations down into "comprehensible component part".

The award winning sentence (wherein he gets so excited about how awesome he is that he switches from third to first person halfway through): "In short he has mastered the art and science of precision and that's what makes me a Precision Processor".

He babbles on a bit more about how wonderful he is and how he sees life as a series of complex equations and finally ends off his masterpiece by comparing himself to Pythagoras.

And you may ask yourself how qualified Mr Pythagoras is and how many years experience he has? A mediocre high school pass, a technical certificate or two from a minor technical institute I don't recognise and 1 year's experience.

Once I'd stopped laughing, I binned it with a loud resounding "Noooooooo". My boss did offer to interview him just for kicks to see how bad he is in person, but we decided we had better things to do with our time than cater to delusional special snowflakes who mistake blinding arrogance for confidence.

In what way? Has he founded a religion? Involved himself in politics to the point where he has been run out of town? Or is his work so obscure and distant that no-one's quite sure if he really did it or not?

Oh .... wow.... I just had to read a winner of a CV. Introducing "The Precision Processor".

There was a paragraph of "Self Description" in the CV, which included some absolute gems:

Our candidate starts off in the third person with "His got a very experiential way of learning". It then continues in the next sentence with "He believes to have" the ability to whittle complex situations down into "comprehensible component part".

The award winning sentence (wherein he gets so excited about how awesome he is that he switches from third to first person halfway through): "In short he has mastered the art and science of precision and that's what makes me a Precision Processor".

He babbles on a bit more about how wonderful he is and how he sees life as a series of complex equations and finally ends off his masterpiece by comparing himself to Pythagoras.

And you may ask yourself how qualified Mr Pythagoras is and how many years experience he has? A mediocre high school pass, a technical certificate or two from a minor technical institute I don't recognise and 1 year's experience.

Once I'd stopped laughing, I binned it with a loud resounding "Noooooooo". My boss did offer to interview him just for kicks to see how bad he is in person, but we decided we had better things to do with our time than cater to delusional special snowflakes who mistake blinding arrogance for confidence.

In what way? Has he founded a religion? Involved himself in politics to the point where he has been run out of town? Or is his work so obscure and distant that no-one's quite sure if he really did it or not?

And I quote: "Like Pythagoras he uses numbers to translate aspects of the world around him." (He'd swapped back to third person for the Pythagorus comparison).

(I snapped a photo of the paragraph for posterity)

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It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian Tiger - from a distance, preferably separated by bars . -- Pearls Before Swine (16-May-2009)

Oh .... wow.... I just had to read a winner of a CV. Introducing "The Precision Processor".

There was a paragraph of "Self Description" in the CV, which included some absolute gems:

Our candidate starts off in the third person with "His got a very experiential way of learning". It then continues in the next sentence with "He believes to have" the ability to whittle complex situations down into "comprehensible component part".

The award winning sentence (wherein he gets so excited about how awesome he is that he switches from third to first person halfway through): "In short he has mastered the art and science of precision and that's what makes me a Precision Processor".

He babbles on a bit more about how wonderful he is and how he sees life as a series of complex equations and finally ends off his masterpiece by comparing himself to Pythagoras.

And you may ask yourself how qualified Mr Pythagoras is and how many years experience he has? A mediocre high school pass, a technical certificate or two from a minor technical institute I don't recognise and 1 year's experience.

Once I'd stopped laughing, I binned it with a loud resounding "Noooooooo". My boss did offer to interview him just for kicks to see how bad he is in person, but we decided we had better things to do with our time than cater to delusional special snowflakes who mistake blinding arrogance for confidence.

In what way? Has he founded a religion? Involved himself in politics to the point where he has been run out of town? Or is his work so obscure and distant that no-one's quite sure if he really did it or not?

And I quote: "Like Pythagoras he uses numbers to translate aspects of the world around him." (He'd swapped back to third person for the Pythagorus comparison).

(I snapped a photo of the paragraph for posterity)

With no exaggeration, that is the funniest thing I have heard in a very long time indeed. According to that reasoning, the Count from Sesame Street is like Pythagoras...